Teen Ensemble Holiday Party

Celebrate the holidays with the Alleyway Teen Ensemble

UPCOMING SESSIONS BEGIN ON

Dec 27, 2025

4:00 pm

Alleyway Teen Ensemble (ATE) is celebrating the holidays in style! Join us December 27 from 4-6:30pm for some end of the year games and improv.

Your registration for this event includes a ticket to either the 2:00 or 7:00 performance of A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Help us celebrate the mainstage debut of ATE member Gigi McCann as Martha Cratchit.

##DETAILS
- Total cost $20 per student, includes show ticket and pizza
- For all students age 11-17

Alleyway Education is committed to providing our programming for all, regardless of your financial situation. If you would like to apply for tuition assistance, please click here to fill out the form and we'll get back to you shortly.

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Jon Elston and Bella Poynton

JON ELSTON is a career educator and the award-winning author of over thirty plays and musicals. In 2002 Elston co-founded Buffalo's Road Less Traveled Productions, where he supported the development of hundreds of new plays and the production of nearly forty world premieres by WNY playwrights. His own plays have been produced in Buffalo, New York City, Washington, D.C., and online. He has taught and directed at the University of Buffalo, Niagara University, Medaille College, NCCC, Villa Maria, and the University of Omaha, as well as in WNY schools as a theatre instructor and certified ELA teacher.

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BELLA POYNTON is a playwright, director, and theatre scholar from Buffalo, NY. She was a Regional Playwriting Resident at Road Less Traveled Productions in 2016, and is the director of Queen City Playwrights, Buffalo’s New Play Development Workshop for area writers. Bella's plays have been produced and developed at New World Stages, The Bechdel Group, MadLab Theatre, Quantum Dragon Theatre, Alleyway Theatre, Looking Glass Theatre, The Great Plains Theatre Festival, The Pittsburgh New Works Festival, Road Less Traveled Productions, 3rd Act Theatre Company, Otherworld Theatre Company, and Post-Industrial Productions. Bella has been a finalist for the Christopher Brian Wolk Playwriting Award, the Heideman Award, the Woodward/Newman Drama Award, the Sam French OOB Festival, and the Maxim Mazumdar Playwriting Competition.

Recently, Bella’s short play The Offer was published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2019 (Smith & Krauss) and her play Eleven Thing that Almost Happened to Rick and Hannah, and One thing that Actually Did is included in The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019 (Applause Publishing). Bella is a co-editor of Interventions at Contemporary Theatre Review, the literary manager of Post-Industrial Productions, and the Graduate Liaison for the Mid America Theatre Festival’s Playwriting Symposium. Bella holds a BFA in Acting from Boston University, an MFA in Playwriting from The Iowa Playwrights Workshop and is currently PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies at SUNY Buffalo. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Medaille College.